Exercise 1.
Say if the statements below are correct. Begin with the phrases: that’s right, that’s wrong.
1. Alice and Arthur Heath are grandparents. 2. They live with their son Harold and his wife. 3. Arthur Heath is 40 years old. 4. Fred retired 10 years ago. 5. Fred lives with his wife. 6. He spends a lot of time with his grandchildren. 7. The Heaths had two sons. 8. Harold Heath and his wife Jean have three children: two girls and one boy. 9. Harold’s father worked in the hospital. 10. Harold is a teacher. 11. The Kings have four children. 12. Elizabeth Heath is 16, and she is still at school. 13. Her favourite subject is German. 14. David spends a lot of time with his grandfather. They both like cars. 15. Robert King is Betty King’s nephew. 16. Tracey is going to be 20 years old next month. 17. Brian King loves horses. 18. Brian is still at school. 19. He wants to leave school and work at the railway. 20. Brian is 15, and so he is going to leave school next year.
Exercise 2.
Answer the following questions:
1. Is the family big or small? 2. What are the names of the grandparents? 3. Harold Heath is 70, isn’t he? 4. When did Fred retire? 5. Is Fred a widower? 6. Does Fred spend a lot of time with his children or with his grandchildren?7. How many daughters have the Heaths got? 8. What are their names? 9. Who is Jean’s husband? 10. Have Harold and Jean got three or four children? 11. What was Harold’s father? 12. What is Harold? 13. Betty’s husband is John King, isn’t he? 14. What are the names of the Kings’ children? 15. How old is Elizabeth King? 16. She is still at school, isn’t she? 17. Does she work? 18. Her favourite subject is Spanish, isn’t it? 19. Why do David and his grandfather spend a lot of time together? 20. What do you know about Robert King’s family? 21. Brian King doesn’t like school very much, does he? 22. What is he going to do after leaving school? 23. When is he going to leave school?
Exercise 3.
Make up a dialogue of your own on the family of Alice and Arthur Heath.
Exercise 4.
Make the Heaths family tree.
Exercise 5.
Make your family tree and give a talk on your family.
Speak on the topic.
ABOUT MYSELF
(Sample story)
1. I’d like to tell you about myself.
2. My full name is Smirnov Mikhail Ivanovich.
My surname is Smirnov. My first name is Mikhail, Misha for short. My patronymic is Ivanovich.
3. I was born on the 10th of February, 1981, in the city of Ekaterinburg (town of Rezh, village of X.)
4. In 1988 I began going to school.
5. My favourite school subjects were...
6. In 1998 I finished school and entered the Ural State Forestry Engineering University the same year.
7. Now I am a first-year student of the Faculty of Chemistry.
8. I am not married, that means that I have no family of my own.
9. I live with (separately from) my parents.
10. Our family is neither big nor small.
11. We are four: father, mother, a sister (a brother) and me.
12. My parents' names are...
13. They are workers.
14. My father is 48, my mother is 45.
15. Their hobby is gardening.
16. My sister's (brother's) name is....
17. She (he) is 4 years my junior (senior).
Она (он) на 4 года младше (старше).
18. Her/ his name is...
19. Her/ his hobby is...
20. I love my family very much.
21. As I am a student, I spend much time on my studies.
22. And I have very little time for my hobby.
23. I am fond of dancing (reading, doing sport, listening to music.)
24. That's all I wanted to tell you about myself